Book Announcement by Barbara Pizer (USA)
In this new Routledge book from Barbara Pizer, it becomes impossible to stand apart from the analytic field when abstract concepts such as dissociation, intersubjectivity and unconscious communication, as well as newly coined ones like “Relational (K)not” and “Body Words” come alive through a vivid unfolding of analytic process.
Body Words and the Analyst’s Use of Self: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process invites the reader into the mind of the analyst as she draws from reverie, memory and affect to inspire offerings that enliven the moment, moving the analytic pair forward in affective freedom and self-definition. “Body Words” identify the subjective linkages we make to describe experiencing within and between self and other which lead us to know whether we or our patient are delivering the message in a manner that feels real. Each chapter illustrates how Pizer arrived at this important concept and others in a way that is full of rich, experience-near clinical moments which posed significant challenges.
Body Words is a rare window that allows readers – new and seasoned clinicians of various theoretical persuasions – to become intimate witnesses to the analyst’s subjectivity and the creativity of the analytic partnership.
Barbara Pizer, Ed.D., ABPP, is Faculty, Personal and Supervising Analyst, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; Assistant Professor of Psychology (part time), Harvard Medical School; Visiting Faculty and Member, Advisory Board, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; and Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She maintains a private practice in Cambridge, MA.
Barbara Pizer, Ed.D., ABPP
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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